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The illuminated soul / Aryeh Lev Stollman.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.T6228 I44 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stollman, Aryeh Lev.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts.
- Jews--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Refugees--Fiction.
- Refugees.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Jewish fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 274 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Eva Laquedem, a scientist who has fled Prague at the outbreak of World War II, arrives, by accident, in Windsor, Canada, at the home of a devout widow and her two sons. Within her purse she carries the renowned Augsburg Miscellany, a magnificent 15th-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript, which gives them all a new experience of the world and its possibilities.
- ISBN:
- 1573222011
- OCLC:
- 47056354
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